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Sonntag, 17. Januar 2016

I might be a little bit late but I wish you all the greatest things for this new year! I had a great 2015 and 2016 will be even better!

Today it is my turn at the Good Hair Day blog hop and I have something special for you:

I was so honored to play with the newest fabric collection of the fabulous Kim Anderson again. Good Hair day. How great is the name? I wish every day would be a good hair day. But as we all know- it isn´t like this always.

So why not cheering you up on a bad hair day with some Good Hair Day fabric and making something awesome with it. Like the fun quilt I made?

It is called "Braids Quilt".

I don´t have a proper pattern for you this time but I wipped up a quick tutorial for you on how to construct the braids. Then you decide how long you want the braid to be.

For a braid segment like this you will need:

1 6" square of your backround fabric

2 6" squares of both of your braids fabrics

2 5" squares of both of your braids fabrics

Cutting:

Cut two of your 6" braids fabric squares diagonally.

Cut the other two 6" braids fabric squares diagonally twice (as shown on the picture)

First sew together the smaller triangles. Iron the seam allowances to the darker side.

Then sew together the pieced triangles with the bigger triangles. At this point I like to chainpiece them all together. Just be careful not to get confused. The triangles which are not pieced are slightly bigger than the pieced ones. Don´t worry you are going to trim them later. After you have sewn all your triangles together, iron the seam allowances to the bigger triangle.

Now trim your pieced squares to a 5" square. Arrange them with your 5" squares as shown below.

Now sew them all together. Iron your seam allowances to the squares which are not pieced.

Voila you have made a braid segment. Now you can repeat the whole process as often as you want and create your very own braids quilt.

I hope you enjoyed my little tutorial, if you have any questions don´t hesitate to ask in the comments.
As you can sew below, there are still two days of Good Hair Day greatness left. So go on enjoying all the patterns, ideas and tutorials.
And don´t forget to get yourself some Good Hair Days. :-)

Donnerstag, 3. September 2015

Voilá,I finished the Bee quilt top. Can´t wait to (hand-)quilt it when I am at
home.Along with the other 4 quilttops waiting to be turned into a quilt.
Maybe, I will try tying a quilt for the first time. I really want to
finish some quilt. The tops are piling up.

And then there was Makerist. That is like a german version of Craftsy. A
very nice lady from the Makerist Team contacted me some time ago and
asked me if I would be interested in filming an quilting workshop for
beginners with them. I certainly was. So we did and for about two weeks
the course is online. I am really proud and I think it covers all that
you need if you want to learn quilting.

Montag, 31. August 2015

It became quite a tradition, that I take some quilting stuff with me to my anual holidays at my parents house in andalucia spain. It gives me the possibilities to take a break from laying at the pool and harvesting fruit and nuts and of course eating. ;-)
Last year I took the blocks of my bee germany month and assembled the quilt top. I really enjoy this work in the sun.

Yesterday I started sewing with this years bee blocks. Here is what I have done so far:
My fellow bee ladies made some very colourful Dresden plates for me and for the backround I assembled squares of brownish fabrics to mellow the brightness of the Dredens. I think it is going to be really cute.
Later a storm appeared and I had to take a break.

Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2015

I finfished a new quilttop recently. Having made such an unusual thing made me thinking about how I start creating. The inspiration for this quiltpattern came from an abandoned couch which was dumped on these dirty streets of Berlin.

I saw it on a grey day at my way to work. I had to take a picture because I instantly saw a quilt in this filthy old couch. A few days later my boyfriend broke up and quite surprisingly I had to a lot of me time over. I started this quilt. I didn´t think about it.

This is what I do with quilts. I don´t think. I start I make I finish. So often I tried to mix and match the perfect fabrics together, I sat in front of my stash and tried to make the most surprising combinations, but it never happened. In fact it frustrated me and stole the fun out of creating.

And then I noticed that this happens often in my life. In work, in love, in creativity. When I overthink things I start to question myself. I have to do things spontaniously, if I don´t it just doesn´t work. And it is no fun and I become so stressed inside, that there is no possibility for the so called flow.

And it all comes to one thing I still can learn more: Trust.

If I trusted myself and god (the universe or whoever) more I wouldn´t question myself all the time. I could life happily and do my thing, without worrying where it will lead me. Sometimes it works and I am getting better.

I thought about this blogpost for a few days now, but now that I write it, I am not sure if I can explain it enough, if it is understandable what I mean. If it makes sense at all.

But then again, who cares, this is mostly a quilting blog, right? Why do I have to have the perfect philosophical and psychological ideas, advices on hand?

Just because I think I have to. But I don´t. This is a quilting blog. So here is the quilt top. I hope you like! :-) I do.

Freitag, 23. Januar 2015

Oh my, it has been so long since I have been blogging, I don´t even now which buttons to push.
Sorry for that, but I definetely had my reasons. One of these reasons is that I was really and I mean really busy over christmas. And that started at the beginning of october. Last year I was really struggleing financialwise, and I new that I had to make the christmasbusiness awesome. And that ment sewing like crazy. I attended 3 christmas market weekends in december and I remember that in one period of five days in between two weekends I sewed 36 tops, 48 undies and 20 scarfes. Sleeping was overrated these weeks.
But you now what? It payed of. Lets say I am getting there, Slowly but steady I can breath again. And relax and enjoy life. And I really mean enjoying.
This is the second reason, that I didn´t find the time and energy to blog: I met a really nice man! We are dating and enjoying time together for four months now and it really feels good and real. So please accept my apologies for not beeing to uberactive here. I have some other things to do...;-)

And there is a pattern.

I am really exited to tell you that I wrote a pattern, finally.

I wanted to do that for such a long time. I had already made two versions of this particular quilt and then in my last post I showed you the coloured pavement quilt I made with the amazing Tidal Lace fabric by Kim Anderson.

And I promised to write a pattern. Well that had to wait until the last minute, again- I had other things to do... :-)

But now it is finished. It is ready to get online. You will be able to buy it on craftsy.
I am supernervous, because I never wrote a proper pattern before. I really hope it is understandable and well written, I checked a thousand times and I let some of my quiltbuddies, check and testsew aswell.